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The overall situation at any given time is often too fraught with difficulty for much meaningful dialogue ever to be initiated, let alone sustained. Without exception, the many frequent failures in times past, including that of the very recent, have done little but contribute to a general feeling of resignation and despair about most things, especially those of peace negotiations and their invariably negative outcomes.

The problem has endured for so long that its consistency and unchanging aspect have taken on an air of permanence, one totally at odds with any former way of life. Even for many of us far removed from the conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian struggle exists in a dimension of such predictable conformity that no power known to G-d or Man now seems able to change its course, nor raise it from out the well-worn rut its appearance on the scene has generated these many decades since.

Then does the answer here reside in having some measure of serious unpredictability enter into the equation, a destabilising influence ready to disobey convention and defy whatever fates have ruled all previous attempts at resolution?

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